Machine for peeling tomatoes.



1. w. HNVILLE & C.-C.'TILLMAN.'

MACHINE FOR FEELING TOMATOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 10. 1915. I

Patente Oct.

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Q ww N Z S HEETSSHEET 1- Witnesses Attorneys 1. w. LINVILLE & c. c. TILLMAN.

MACHINE FOR FEELING TOMATOES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.10. 1915.

SHEET' 2.

Inventor! Attorneys Patented Oct. 2,1917.-

2 SHEETS Witnesses or ilt? Application filed Fe rnary 10, 1935.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that We, JOHN 'W. LINVILLE and CARL C. TILLM'AN, citizens of the United States. residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful. Machine for Peeling Toma toes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for peeling tomatoes and is more especially designed for use in connection with a tomato coring machine such as constitutes the subject matter of a separate application tiled by us.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide means whereby the tomatoes, after being subjected to the action of a scalding fluid, will be conveyed to skin removing elements of novel form, subsequently Washed and then delivered at a point Wl ore they can be readily inspected prior to being canned.

W'ith the foregoing and other objects in view which Will appear as the description. proceeds, the invention resides in the cornbination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of What is claimed, Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

- In said drawings 1- Figure 1 is a VlOW partly in side elevation and partly in longituoinal section the complete machine.

Fig. 2 is a plan View thereof, the hood or housing being removed.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged end elevation, supplemental or inspection belt being moved and the casing being shown in sec tion.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged elevation of one o the peeling brushes and its cl caning fork.

Referring to the figures by characters 0 reference 1 designates a. suitable sumiorting structure carrying parallel longitudinal tracks or supports 2 at the ends of which are located pulleys. sprockets or the like in dicated at 3, the wheels 3 at one end being; mounted on and revoluble with a shaft t While the Wheels at the other end of the niachinc are secured to and rotate with a shaft 5. These wheels 3 are engaged by endless conveyor belts or chains 6 having KACHRQE FOR FEELING specification of Letters Eatcnt.

it pulley 9 or the line for r from a belt not shown Anotl sprocket 10 is secured to to motion is ad pted from throng or sprocket 1 other pulley shaft 8 and through pulley or which. of the warclly and down port or base fit) -l helt can be varied at rixtendinp; over the through ranged under 25 in connnunirzicio pipe 26. these pip ranged ope ings ironi contezn.

in conninnirr pipe E28 the ivat rough openn he c ntents n transverse sci" and 27 and upon by the rails :5 a e which is provill' at its bevel gear All. and each r. ln'ush 3-2 the pcriphci of with an annular i'ijl'toi t" the rounded as snmvu. size as to prao'icullj r i tour oi" the my to be peeled.

Extending above each series o shafts is a transverse shaft 33 carrying bevel gears 34 which mesh with the respec tive gears 31. One of the shafts 33 receives motion through av chain 35 or the like from the shaft 8 and transmits motion through a chain 36 or the like to the other shaft By providing gears as shown it will be seen that the brushes, which aredisposed in pairs, Will be actuated, the brushes of each pair rotating in the same direction so that as an article is drawn between the brushes of each pair by the conveyors 6, the said article will be acted on by the brushes and the scalded skin removed. Arranged close to each of the brushes is a cleaning fork 37 or the like designed to remove skins from the brushes. A hopper 38 is arranged under the brushes to receive the skins, While another hopper or basin 39 is located under the pipes 27 to receive the Water used in Washing the ar ticles.

The tomatoes or other articles to be peeled are supplied to the machine at the inlet end thereof, the spikes 7 being adapted to stick into the articles so as to hold them to the conveyers 6 These conveyors, which are driven in the manner described, carry the tomatoes under the hood 22 Where they are subjected to the scalding action of steam issuing from the pipes 25, this steam thus loosening the skins without, however, cooking the tomatoes. As the tomatoes continue to movev through the machine they are brought between the brushes and these brushes, by rotating rapidly, remove the skins from the tomatoes so that, when the said tomatoes arrive under the pipes 2'7, they wilLbe practically akin. While passing under the pipes 27,

the Water issuing therefrom will Wash any free of all particles of Lat e-see particles of skin from the tomatoes and the said tomatoes will be delivered in a clean condition onto the inspection belt 1.7 from which they will be discharged into the canning machinery. The skins are removed from the brushes by the forks 37 and fall into the hopper 38, while the water draining off of the Washed tomatoes will be discharged into the hopper or basin 39.

What is claimed is 1. In a machine for peeling tomatoes and the like, spaced brushes. means for rotating the brushes simultaneously in the same direc tion, a carrier passing between the brushes, means for pivotally securing a tomato or the like 011 the carrier, and means to propel the carrier to draw the article between the rotating brushes and subject it to the action thereof.

2. In a machine for peeling tomatoes and the like, the combination with steaming means and washing means, of spaced brushes between the steaming and washing means, means for simultaneously rotating the brushes in the same direction, and a conveyor including means for. pivoting an article thereon for drawing an article from the steaming means and between and across the faces of the brushes while said article is being subjected to the action of the rotating brushes.

In testimony that we claim the t'oregoing 

